1. Air conditioners are on the roofs, not on the ground.
2. Grocery stores smell like...well, let's just say they don't smell the same as Canadian grocery stores...
3. To take your shoes off just inside the door of someone else's house is considered forward, gross and rude. You keep your shoes on until you've been given permission to "make yourself at home." In Canada we would think you rude for tracking snow into our living rooms...
4. Processed food and fast food are SO inexpensive.
5. If you go into emergency, it only takes an hour or two to see a doctor instead of waiting all night.
6. When you need to see a specialist, if you don't get an appointment for the very next day, it's definitely within the week.
7. Their accents are different, eh?
8. SO MANY POLITICS!!! And liberal is not a word used to describe churches...ever. Liberal vs. conservative is government. To call a church "liberal" seems to be quite a negative thing.
9. French is not the second language. If there is a language other than English on a box, it's usually Spanish.
10. No Superstore, no IGA, no Canadian Tire, no Tim Hortons. But Subway has $5 footlongs!
3 comments:
Sounds like you might be missing a few homely Canadian things. Well they'll be here when you get back.
I am English married to a Canadian, we live in the UK. She would consider wearing shoes in the house grounds for divorce.The choice is slippers with or without socks.When we visit her family and friends in BC its exactly the same. But in reality its also what most Brits do at home as well.
Have you been in the emerg already? I think the shoe thing is interesting. I learned about that 5 years ago!
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